🔲 Awaken your good points with the help of your thinking.
🔲 If you leave your thoughts to wander freely, they will go astray.
👉🏼 #ControllingMyMind (6)
➖A person usually wants something more when he/she doesn’t have it. Sometimes he can’t even think of anything else. A person who keeps thinking and concentrating on what he doesn’t have will become obsessed.
➖Imam Hasan (as) said, “If you want something from the world but don’t get it, imagine that this wish never came to your mind.” [Kashf al-Ghumma, vol. 1, p. 572] He also said, “I encourage you to #think constantly and deeply, because thinking is the foundation for every goodness.” [Tanbih al-Khawatir, vol. 1, p. 52]
➖“A believer is drowned in thinking,” Imam Ali (as) said. [Nahj al-Balaghah, wisdom no. 333] In the same way that the ability to #concentrate needs practice, #thinking well also needs practice. If you leave your thoughts to wander freely, they will go astray. When some people think, they think of longings, jealousy, greed, and plans that will destroy them. Never busy your mind with thoughts about what you do not have!
➖Controlling one’s mind entails at least five tasks that you should be able to do:
1. Think and pay attention to any subject that you choose, not any subject that grabs your attention.
2. Think for as long as you want about any subject you choose
3. Think deeply about one subject, and this is difficult to do
4. Distract your thinking from any subject you don’t wish to think about, e.g., if others pull your thinking to a topic, be able to stop thinking about it.
5. Not allow vain or evil thoughts to attract your thinking for you to need to divert your thinking later on.
➖You should be able to not allow your #attention to be pulled toward anything without your permission. You should think good thoughts and look from a positive angle at things that usually bring bad thoughts and distract you. These are skills the prophets had! Some of the Disciples came across a dog’s carcass. The first thing that caught their attention was its stench, but Prophet Jesus (as) said, “It has such white teeth!” [Tanbih al-Khawatir, vol. 1, p. 117]
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🔲 If you leave your thoughts to wander freely, they will go astray.
👉🏼 #ControllingMyMind (6)
➖A person usually wants something more when he/she doesn’t have it. Sometimes he can’t even think of anything else. A person who keeps thinking and concentrating on what he doesn’t have will become obsessed.
➖Imam Hasan (as) said, “If you want something from the world but don’t get it, imagine that this wish never came to your mind.” [Kashf al-Ghumma, vol. 1, p. 572] He also said, “I encourage you to #think constantly and deeply, because thinking is the foundation for every goodness.” [Tanbih al-Khawatir, vol. 1, p. 52]
➖“A believer is drowned in thinking,” Imam Ali (as) said. [Nahj al-Balaghah, wisdom no. 333] In the same way that the ability to #concentrate needs practice, #thinking well also needs practice. If you leave your thoughts to wander freely, they will go astray. When some people think, they think of longings, jealousy, greed, and plans that will destroy them. Never busy your mind with thoughts about what you do not have!
➖Controlling one’s mind entails at least five tasks that you should be able to do:
1. Think and pay attention to any subject that you choose, not any subject that grabs your attention.
2. Think for as long as you want about any subject you choose
3. Think deeply about one subject, and this is difficult to do
4. Distract your thinking from any subject you don’t wish to think about, e.g., if others pull your thinking to a topic, be able to stop thinking about it.
5. Not allow vain or evil thoughts to attract your thinking for you to need to divert your thinking later on.
➖You should be able to not allow your #attention to be pulled toward anything without your permission. You should think good thoughts and look from a positive angle at things that usually bring bad thoughts and distract you. These are skills the prophets had! Some of the Disciples came across a dog’s carcass. The first thing that caught their attention was its stench, but Prophet Jesus (as) said, “It has such white teeth!” [Tanbih al-Khawatir, vol. 1, p. 117]
✅ @PanahianEN